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200x Tipe PDF Ukuran file 0.50 MB Source: 2010
Exhibit A1 Thousands of years of very slow decomposition of organic matter creates an enormous carbon storage in peat soil ILLUSTRATIVE Indonesian peat is storing 36 Gt of carbon (132 Gtof CO2e) at present below ground Land under Peat forest store flooded 4,2 Gt of carbon conditions (15 Gt CO2e) above ground As a comparison the worlds largest rainforest, the Amazon, is storing 46 Gt of Slow drainage resulting in Slow decomposing carbon )(168 Gt standing water and very organic materials caused Accumulation of of CO2e) slow decomposition of by lack of oxygen and low organcic materials biomass abundance of (peat) microorganisms ! "#$% & ' ( )* # + # ( )*# ", -, # )* . # ' ' Exhibit A2 Peat emissions are a result of decomposition and fires of already ILLUSTRATIVE degraded land and new land openings will increase emissions in the future Existing land openings Decomposition Peat fire after drainage Future land openings Removal of biomass Decomposition Peat fire above ground (logging) after drainage / 0 ## " 1
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